432 Quotes About Melancholy

If you close your eyes when you sing in Latin, and if you stand right at the back so you can keep one hand against the cold stone wall of the church, you can pretend you're in the Middle Ages. That's why I did it. That's what I was in it for.

You hung around the tattered edges of my soul, that's where you preferred to be...

Was I prone to sadness and melancholy? How could anyone like that? It wasn't that I wanted it; it was that I was so used to hard rains, I couldn't help expecting a cloudburst every time something nice happened and sunshine beamed down over me.

-Quand vous regardez le plafond de cette chambre, qu'est-ce que vous y voyez?-L'intérieur de ma tête.-C'est comment?-Opaque.

I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

Among all the proposals of friendship I got, out of all the feelings that I could have experienced, (In despair) Melancholy became my friend.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;